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ActionAid is partnering with women across rural India to rally them to demand rights and schemes for their communities to end poverty and play active role in village council. |
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ActionAid is partnering with women across rural India to rally together to demand rights and schemes for their communities to end poverty and play active role in village council. |
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Reflect, or Reflect-Action as it is also known, is an innovative approach to adult learning and social change. |
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With women coming together and joining struggles for rights, the issue of identity has become a key expression of ActionAid partnered initiatives. |
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New research by ActionAid and IDRC shows that the number of girls born and surviving in northern India compared to boys falls far short of normal expectations, and continues to slide. |
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A candlelit vigil was held in Delhi to express solidarity with the Dongria Kondh tribe. This indigenous group from south Orissa is fighting to save their sacred mountain Niyamgiri from being destroyed by a global mining giant. |
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Delhiites gather at Delhi Haat to show solidarity to the Kondhs in saving their god, The Niyamgiri mountain. |
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Niyamgiri hills in Orissa, India, are the ancestral home of thousands of tribal people. It is also home to rare species of flora and fauna, including endangered animals. |
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ActionAid's 'disaster risk reduction' programme in schools in Assam and Andhra Pradesh trains vulnerable communities and their children in first aid, rescue and evacuation. |
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The Meo Muslims in Rajasthan's Mirzapur village are not only now sending their girls to school, something that was resisted by the patriarchs of the community, but they are also fighting for more amenities and teachers. |
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This film is a clarion call to tribals to hold on to all that belongs to them. It urges indigenous communities to unite and fight for forests, rivers and villages where they have been living peacefully for centuries. |
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There are over 100 million Dalit (formerly "untouchable") women in India. Few own land. Nor do they have any right over resources. They often go hungry and face the issues of untouchability and sexual violence. |
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Bhogaram Sayamma describes her hand to mouth existence and the importance of land ownership for Dalit Women to have security and dignity. |
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The centuries-old caste system in India treats Dalits as "untouchables" the word literally means "oppressed people". |
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Niyamgiri hills in Orissa are the ancestral home of thousands of tribal Kondh communities. The tribes want vedanta project be stopped before irreversible damage is done to the environment and their way of life. |
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Challenging stigma and patriarchy, a group of HIV-positive women in Banglore have created their own success story by reaching out to support positive people in the city. |
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Kondh women reject gifts by Vedanta
Under no circumstance is the Kondh indigenous group ready to give away their sacred mountain Niyamgiri to Vedanta Aluminium Resources for bauxite mining. |
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Bihar floods emergency appeal
Flooding has caused devastation in the eastern state of Bihar in India with thousands missing, hundreds of villages destroyed and road and rail routes blocked, says ActionAid.. |
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Mizoram faces starvation
Food shortage in Mizoram's villages following an explosion of rodent population fueled by the natural phenomena of bamboo flowering in the region. |
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Orissa's kondh tribal fight mining
Indigenous people in Orissa are facing destruction due to a project to mine bauxite from Niyamgiri hills that they worship as a god since ancient times. |
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Kondh Life
Kondhs are in danger of losing their ecological and cultural space to UK-based mining company vedanta. A decision is to be made soon at the Supreme Court on the issue. |
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Tribal people speak out
For generations the Niyamgiri Mountain in has been home to thousands of tribal people. Now UK mining giant Vedanta wants to extract bauxite from the mountain. |
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